Burning Man Festival

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News about Burning Man Festival, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Sep. 25, 2014

New type of gathering known as 'transformational festivals,' inspired by Nevada's Burning Man festival, purport to offer convergence of art, nature, spirituality and community; such festivals have spread beyond West Coast and take place year-round throughout United States. MORE

Aug. 21, 2014

Nick Bilton Disruptions column observes that Burning Man, arts festival in Nevada desert that was once domain of those with countercultural bent, has over last two years become annual getaway for new crop of wealthy technology moguls; some say new rich are creating sense of separation and ruining festival for everyone else. MORE

Sep. 8, 2013

Critics say Burning Man, a weeklong arts festival that began as a beach bonfire for California freethinkers in 1986, has become a giant networking party for Silicon Valley careerists. MORE

Aug. 5, 2012

Travel Q&A with Eric Fenster, a regular at Burning Man, weeklong arts festival held in Black Rock Desert, Nevada, every summer since 1990. MORE

Jun. 22, 2012

Ken Johnson laments the fact that he will not be attending this year's Burning Man arts festival in Nevada. MORE

Mar. 30, 2012

Op-Ed article by author Jessica Bruder shares concern for the future of the Burning Man Festival; says it has become increasingly difficult and expensive to attend the festival due to its popularity, and the restrictions on the number of attendees seem to contradict the festival's spirit. MORE

Feb. 13, 2012

Thousands of veteran Burning Man attendees are left without tickets to the August event in Nevada, and some believe tickets may have landed in the hands of scalpers; organizers replaced their first-come-first-served online ticket sales with a lottery system, which they hoped would make ticket distribution more equitable; they did not anticipate the deluge of more than 80,000 people who signed up for the lottery. MORE

Aug. 29, 2011

Urban planners extol thoughtful approach of Rod Garrett, city designer who laid out Nevada's annual self-expression festival Burning Man in 1997; Garrett, who died in August, will continue to have his handiwork on display as thousands attend Burning Man's 25th anniversary event in September. MORE

Aug. 28, 2011

Burning Man arts festival and experimental community will start on August 29 and will continue through to September 5; notes that the event has sold out its tickets for the first time ever, resulting in ticket prices from scalpers of $600 or higher. MORE

March 30, 2012, Friday

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Deep in the dusty expanse of the Nevada desert, over 60,000 people from around the world join together in a weeklong bacchanalia of art, self-expression and music. The once forsaken landscape is transformed into a temporary Shangri-La that doesn’t e

Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky (Burning Man), THE RAILWAY MAN tells the story of Eric Lomax (Jeremy Irvine, Great Expectations, War Horse), serving in the Second World War when he is captured and held prisoner by the Japanese. Brutally tortured and